Found a Ricoh GR1 Repair Person... but there's a catch.... Now a dillemma

[jbf]

Hi all,

Just before teh pandemic in 2019, my Ricoh GR1 fell during a wedding shoot and stopped working.

Now, I recently found a seemingly talented repair person who maintains a blog of a variety of cameras he repairs and has has many successful go's at repairing failed Ricoh GR1 cameras.

The catch is he's in Moscow and I have no idea how shipping from U.S. works to Russia works right now and also the fact there's an active war going on between Russia and Ukraine, etc.


This is the repair guys' blog:
https://awaysounds1.livejournal.com

Some youtube:
diagnostics of a broken shutter in contax g2 under the thermal camera - YouTube



Seems very capable and talented. Both with electronics PCB MFG and general repair work.


What are people's thoughts on this?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

"At this time, all mail services to Russia are not available"

You will not be able to ship it in any easy way, and even of you could - payment and return shipping will be convoluted at best.

 

[valdas]

Try Gosn camera in Taiwan.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063506573445

they repaired my Minolta TC1. I also considered that Russian guy, that was before the war, but somehow I felt better doing business with Taiwan.

 

[KoNickon]

I would love to get the LCD in my GR1 working again. Can the Taiwan folks do that?

 

[valdas]

I would love to get the LCD in my GR1 working again. Can the Taiwan folks do that?

they are very responsive on the messenger, just check with them. My experience is limited to TC1 (replaced flex cables).